TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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City in good financial
shape, says manager
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food box before. She said
the majority of their clients
however are “elderly who
live on a fixed social secu-
rity income.”
Orwick said the cen-
ter also helped two fami-
lies with rent assistance in
August and gave out $20
emergency fuel vouchers
to four families. She old
the council that the center
has received recent requests
for deodorant, dish soap,
laundry detergent and dog
and cat food. “We would
appreciate any extra dona-
tions of these items for us to
distribute to those in need,”
she said.
In other reports Pub-
lic Works Director Chad
Doherty reported the city
had put out the hunter’s
water hook up at Heritage
Park and got the trash bins
set up by city park in prepa-
ration for hunting season
and the hunters that are
coming through town. As a
courtesy to hunters which
have a positive economic
impact on the town’s econ-
omy, free water is provided
for hunters to fill up their
RVs when coming through
town, and free dumpsters
are provided by the park for
hunters to put their trash on
the way out of town.
Good News Only by Doris Brosnan
September is especially significant for Bob Harrison.
Not only did Bob celebrate his 85th birth-day on the 8th,
he and Sharon will be celebrating their 61st wedding an-
niversary just eight days later (this Friday). Congratula-
tions, Robert. And Sharon.
Virgil and Debbie Morgan celebrated their anniver-
sary on the 4th. The Morgans have been married for 45
years. Congratulations.
Betty Gray welcomed daughter, DeLoy, and
her husband, Curtis, from Seattle last week-end. Such
a complement to have the couple choose to celebrate
their 24th anniversary with her. They brought a magnif-
icent variety of seafood with them, so when Betty’s son,
Mark, and his wife, Ima, joined them and Ione friends
Alan and Nancy Anderson for dinner, they enjoyed an
amazing feast.
Generally agreed by medical persons is that
walking is good for us. It can also be good for our com-
munity, thanks to walkers like Dale Adlard. Early AM
finds Dale out for his walk, carrying a sack into which he
puts other people’s debris that he finds on our sidewalks
and streets. Kudos, Dale, for making a difference, for
modeling for us the volunteer actions of a con-cerned
citizen. (No, he does not pick up dog-do that owners
have left on the sidewalks.)
Maybe not considered truly “good news,” the
return of our Grease Bugs this month, with a second
thought, actually sort of qualifies: In an uncertain, un-
predictable world, consistency can be reassuring. These
almost-innocuous grass bugs that leave their little specks
around the house and maybe surprise us when we stick
our feet into bed or start to drink a cup of coffee can be
depended on to show up in great quantities for the Pend-
leton Roundup in September and for St. Patrick’s Day.
Consistency.
The first day of school always provides some
smiles as the preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first
graders report their experiences. Heard on August 29:
“Teacher let me do anything I wanted to….Why don’t
you do that, Mom?” “If I don’t like it tomorrow, I’ll just
get on the bus and come home.” “I’m not going back.
I still can’t read.” One little preschooler was most im-
pressed with one particular activity: He apparently was
allowed to run, to “run everywhere.”
Good news for the individuals who attended
Music in the Park last Sunday. The last con-cert of this
summer series featured the “Brass Fire Band,” with a
great, large sound and a great, large variety of songs. Six
of the ten band members sang solos, accompanied by
nine to ten in-struments. The spokesperson entertained
with one-liners between selections, and the fact that the
band cared enough about their performance that they
dressed alike and included a little choreog-raphy was to-
tally refreshing.
Smiling and sometimes chuckling is so good for us.
Share your upbeat moments with readers, improve our
well-being, by sending tidbits to dbrosnan123@gmail.
com or calling 541-223-1490. Please, share.
Here’s hoping that some good news comes to everyone
reading this.
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Where are these millions of new
and invisible voters?
To the Editor:
“Joe Biden spent most of
the pandemic-laced cam-
paign in his Delaware base-
ment and his appearances
were marked by sparse
crowds and signs he has
lost a step,” (New York
Post, Oct. 16, 21) yet Biden
received 81 million votes,
the most ever cast in a U.S.
presidential election. In-
credulously the American
people have been plastered
with, “by all measures,
the 2020 general election
was one of the most se-
cure elections in our his-
tory.” (Brennon Center
For Justice, Dec.11,2020).
The incessant chorus from
nearly every media outlet
and government institution
was resounding unanimous:
“There is no evidence that
any voting system deleted
or lost votes, changed votes,
or was in any way compro-
mised.” (“Trumps own offi-
cials say 2020 was Ameri-
ca’s most secure in history,”
Jen Kirby, 11/13/20)
George Bush won 2004
presidential election with
62 million votes. Barack
Obama received the most
votes in history in 2008
with 69 million. Donald
Trump won the 2016 elec-
tion with 64 million votes
and somehow lost the 2020
election with over 74 mil-
lion votes. At the same time
“U.S. Population Growth is
Collapsing,” (The Atlantic,
Derek Thompson, 3/28/22)
the 2020 presidential elec-
tion recorded the high-
est voter turnout (67%) of
registered voters in over a
century. In the 2010 and
2014 U.S. elections “for
every 10 adults, only 4 cast
a ballot.” (Exploring Why
So Many Americans Don’t
Vote, NPR, 9/10/18) There
is no valid explanation for
the 81 million votes for
Joe Biden that the media,
government, Google, and
fake political pundits claim
Biden received. Still the
incessant election security
chorus remains. “Election
deniers damage U.S. rep-
utation on world stage.”
(Vice President Kamala
Harris, “Meet the Press,”
9/11/22)
While the national
press, media, even some
at Fox promote the “Big
Lie: Inside the Creation
of Trumps Stolen Elec-
tion Myth” (propublica.
org 4/26/22) two thirds of
Republicans still believe
the “election was rigged
and stolen from Trump.”
(New York Post, Michael
Goodwin, 10/16/21)
Where are these millions
upon millions of new and
invisible Democratic voters
coming from? I encourage
every American citizen to
view Dinesh D’Souza’s
documentary “2000 Mules”
to learn how America has
been ‘fundamentally trans-
formed (Barack Obama)
into “a nation run as a crim-
inal cartel that is controlling
our once free elections.”
(Dinesh D’Souza, 2000
Mules) In this documen-
tary D’Souza and ‘True
The Vote’ use geo tracking
to document thousands of
‘mules’ (paid voting sabo-
teurs) that trafficked poten-
tially millions of fraudulent
ballots which illegitimately
elected Joe Biden. ‘True
the Vote’ recorded over
four million minutes of
film footage documenting
2000 mules casting an un-
countable number of fraud-
ulent ballots at over 38 dif-
ferent drop boxes in heavily
contested swing states.”
(Hans A. Spakousky, “The
Fraud That Dare Not Speak
its Name,” Heritage Foun-
dation, 6/2/22). This Dem-
ocrat controlled criminal
cartel used the Covid 19
pandemic to convince state
governments to place Ballot
Drop boxes in the cities
of primarily swing states.
These Ballot Drop boxes
were unsecure and unregu-
lated and allowed virtually
millions of fraudulent votes
to be cast and counted.
As early as 2012 The Pew
Foundation reported “24
million voter registrations
were either no longer valid
or significantly inaccurate.
More than 1.8 million de-
ceased individuals were
listed as voters.” (Election
integrity Scorecard, Her-
itage Foundation, 2012)
How was this D.O.J., F.B.I.,
media and government con-
trolled criminal cartel able
to pull this coup of our
election system? “It was a
genius plan. And because
no one ever imagined that a
coordinated operation could
pull off the privatization
of the election system no
laws were built to com-
bat it.” (op. cit. Goodwin,
10/16/21) Who better to
fund this criminal cartel
that billionaire Facebook
tycoon Mark Zuckerberg.
“The 419 million that Face-
book founder Zuckerberg
ostensibly spent to get out
the vote, was actually used
by Democrat activists to
infiltrate local election op-
erations and take over jobs
government workers were
suppose to do.” (op.cit.
Goodwin) These Zucker-
berg mules were the same
BLM, Antifa, and gang
activists the criminal cartel
paid to terrorize America in
the violent riots in America
pre Biden. Zuckerberg’s
money lined up “left wing
groups in key cities that in
turn lured poll workers, col-
lected absentee ballots and
cured those with errors.”
(op. cit. Goodwin)
While the criminal car-
tel screams voter suppres-
sion, Zuckerberg and pal
George Soros (126 million
to his super liberal PAC
2022) are already setting
their voting ballot traps
to steal the 2022 midterm
elections. Once they steal
the next election, they will
continue to weaponize the
U.S. government to go after
their enemies. Not only has
Biden authorized the FBI
to go after Trump, but “35
MAGA Allies got raided”
(Newsweek, Jake Thomas,
9/9/22) have experienced
their homes being assault-
ed. This cartel views con-
servative American Trump
supporters as their greatest
enemy and threat to their
regime.
Prayer, the armor of
Christ in Ephesians 6, and
a willingness to stand for
God and Country, as did our
forefathers, (the ones this
criminal cartel hates) is our
best hope and deliverance
from this great evil that
has taken over our nation.
Stuart Dick
School District to
interview for
board vacancy
Morrow County School
District will hold a spe-
cial meeting on September
19th, 2022 at 6:00p.m. at
the North District Office/
Zoom.
The purpose of this
meeting is interviews and
selection of a board mem-
ber for School Board Va-
cancy #7.
Some Rodeo Court
members missed
To the Editor
As it has happened, or
rather unfortunately, did
not happen - not all Mor-
row County Fair & Rodeo
Royalty Court members
received an Invitation to
the 100 th year Celebration.
It became an almost
insurmountable task by the
Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo
Committee to get the in-
vitations to all apparently,
with either unknown or no
current addresses avail-
able. Some women who
live as close as Pendleton or
some as far away as Texas
- did not receive an Invita-
tion. Some were followed
up on, others not.
Since all these gals served
with pride, dedication, and
commitment to Heppner
and Morrow County over
the years, it seems fitting
to honor each Court and the
Year of Service.
They all were a big and
integral part of the Rodeo
History, as well as to Hep-
pner and Morrow County.
I believe this information
is within the Gazette-Times
Archives that lists each
Court - Queen and her Prin-
cesses for each Year.
Even though the events
and celebration there in
Heppner have now passed,
it is still the 100 th Year, and
this is the time to publish
this most all-inclusive, hon-
ored and historical List.
Everyone of these Hep-
pner and Morrow County
Courts’ young women ad-
vertised, supported, and
promoted the Fair and Ro-
deo, traveling at their own
expense all over the North-
west to do so,
culminating in the annual
celebration in Heppner
each year, representing all
of Morrow County. They
lived all over the County;
some were raised on ranch-
es, some were town gals:
Heppner,
Ione, Lexington, Board-
man, Irrigon.
Since the Rodeo started
in 1922, some are deceased,
of course, others at a young-
er age. But each and every
one needs to be recognized,
and it would mean so much
to us living ones also who
did not receive an Invita-
tion and did not even know
we were invited until too
late. There was no prior
Notice, Announcement,
or Invitation published in
the Gazette - which would
have reached those of us
who have a subscription
and passed along to those
who do not.
Also, since the Royalty
Courts have been discontin-
ued, it would be most fitting
and such a good thing to
honor all these past Courts
this year - the 100 th year
Celebration of the Rodeo,
1922- 2022.
It would mean everything
to them and their fami-
lies, friends, neighbors,
and relatives of deceased
and living.
We missed out on know-
ing about it all: the Pa-
rade, Luncheon, Rodeo
- everything. Since I live
in Texas, I receive the Ga-
zette in my mail a week
after it comes out there at
home. So I was shocked
and in disbelief that it was
actually happening at the
same time that I was read-
ing about it for the first
time in the Special Edi-
tion, “The Bounty of our
County”. Maybe I should
have remembered that it
was the 100 th year, but I
did not.
Serving on the Court
for two years, first as a
1966 Princess and then the
following year as the 1967
Queen, is right up there for
me - as getting married and
having kids, for example.
It meant and means that
much to me in my life. The
memories last a lifetime.
My Dad, Raymond
French, served on the Ro-
deo Board (now called the
Committee) for years. My
ancestors - the Butter Creek
ranchers who started and
helped organize and partic-
ipate in the first Rodeos in
Heppner in the 1920’s and
30’s - were my Grandfather
Herbert French, my Great
Uncle Jack French, and my
husband, Tony Schiller’s
Great Uncle Tony Vey, who
he is named after. So it is
in our DNA.
Morrow County and Hep-
pner is Home and always
will be.
This has been devastating
to me, not to know about the
Invitation or the 100 Year
Celebration.
So could this historical
Royalty Court List be re-
searched and made possible
to publish at this time? It is
very important to me and to
all who did not know about
or be part of this 100 th Year
Anniversary.
It would be gratefully and
most thankfully appreciated
from us all.
Thank You,
Verina French Schiller
Patriots will save our country
Attention Citizens of Ore-
gon, this is just a reminder
of the things you should
think about before and
during Election Day; No-
vember 8, 2022. We are a
nation in decline. We are
a failing nation. We are a
nation that has the highest
inflation in over 40 years
and the stock market just
finished the worst half of
the year in more than five
decades. We are a nation
that has the highest ener-
gy cost in its history. And
we are no longer energy
independent, or energy
dominant which we were
just two short years ago.
We are a nation that is beg-
ging Venezuela and Saudi
Arabia for oil. We are a
nation that surrendered in
Afghanistan leaving be-
hind dead soldiers and
American citizens and $85
billion worth of the finest
military equipment in the
World. We are a nation that
allowed Russia to devas-
tate country-Ukraine-kill-
ing hundreds of thousands
of people. We are a nation
that has weaponized its law
enforcement against the
opposing political party
like never before. We are a
nation where free speech is
no longer allowed, where
crime is rampant like nev-
er before, where the econ-
omy has been collapsing,
and where more people
died of COVID in 2021
than in 2020. We are a na-
tion that is allowing Iran
to build a massive nuclear
weapon and China to use
the trillions and trillions
of dollars it is taken from
the United States to build
a military to rival our pow-
er. We are a nation that
over the past two years is
no longer respected, or
listened to, all around the
world. And we are a nation
that is hostile to liberty,
freedom, and faith. We are
a nation whose economy is
floundering whose stores
are not stocked, whose
deliveries are not coming,
and whose educational
system is ranked at the bot-
tom of every list. We are a
nation that in many ways
has become a JOKE. It is
hard-working patriots like
you who built this coun-
try and it is hard-working
patriots like you who are
going to save our country.
These are the words of
President Trump, shared
by a syndicated columnist
Dr. Harold Pease.
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Kathy Wilson